The Effectiveness Of Anchored Word Instruction In Teaching Alphabet Knowledge, Letter-Sound Relationship And Vocabulary To Preschool Children

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dc.contributor.authorTan, Chun Thing
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-23T00:49:09Z
dc.date.available2016-11-23T00:49:09Z
dc.date.issued2006-06
dc.description.abstractThe Malaysian National Preschool Curriculum aims at enabling children to be actively involved in English language activities and developing their vocabulary knowledge. Additionally, the curriculum hopes to develop an appropriate level of proficiency in English amongst preschool children so that they are well prepared to proceed to primary grades. Therefore, this study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of the Anchored Word Instruction in developing vocabulary knowledge as. well as alphabet knowledge and understanding of letter-sound relationship amongst preschool children. Through this method, the children were exposed to reading materials. Literacy skills were introduced through activity-based and in-context strategies. This research used quasi-experiment design using pre and posttest to gather data. A government preschool in Penang was selected. In this school, one class was randomly aSSigned as the control group while another class was treated as the experimental group. Each group had 25 preschool children. It was found that both Anchored Word Instruction and traditional instruction enhanced the three language skills. Results showed that there was no significant difference in achievement of alphabet knowledge for both groups. As for letter-sound relationship and vocabulary, the findings showed that Anchored Word Instruction was more effective than the traditional instruction. This study implies that Anchored Word Instruction which emphasizes stories and language activities will contribute to English language development for preschool children.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3159
dc.subjectThe effectiveness of the Anchored Word Instruction in developing vocabulary knowledgeen_US
dc.subjectas. well as alphabet knowledge and understanding of letter-sound relationship amongst preschool children.en_US
dc.titleThe Effectiveness Of Anchored Word Instruction In Teaching Alphabet Knowledge, Letter-Sound Relationship And Vocabulary To Preschool Childrenen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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